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My Works

The Tempest sent to the bottom, 2004

Down At The Docks....Great writing...Sociology the way Joe Mitchell used to explain it: Boston Globe

DOWN AT THE DOCKS
In the tradition of MOBY-DICK, DOWN AT THE DOCKS is an authentic American fish story and along the way, it logs the passage of a nation from bottom of the heap to top of the pile...Critics call it: A classic...Important...At last, a worthy heir emerges to claim the legacy of Joe Mitchell...Engaging...Among America's best non-fiction...

In Nugent, America has at last produced a travel writer as crazy as the British....John Leonard, Newsday & NPR
This book is funny and smart, welcome to the big leagues, Mister Nugent...George Trow, the NY'er

A wonderful mix of adventure and reportage told by one of America's best journalists...Guardian
Eerily accurate...we all should have read this piece the day it came out...SF Chronicle
One of the first and still one of the best stories on Islamic Fundamentalism....

INSIDE THE IRA
REPORT FROM BEHIND THE MASK AND NONE BETTER, Village Voice

ASME short-list and short-listed for Press Association Picture of the year

A must read in the White House...The best reporting ever out of N.Ireland...WaPo

Superboat
OASIS OF THE SEAS sets a new standard in ocean travel.
Everything about her is big: price tag, size, fuel consumption.

My Lunch With Osama Bin Laden
For Rolling Stone Magazine... Read this story and learn from a reporter who was tracking radical Islam, its root and meaning, back when the rest of the media was content to phone-in work about celebrity culture...SF Chronicle

UPSIDE DOWN
En route to the start of the 1980 Observer Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race, Nugent's boat, Godiva Chocolates, was capsized by a rogue wave eleven miles from that exact spot in the North Atlantic most remote from land

New Bedford harbor

IRA at a Belfast Disco

IRA OP near the border

IRA on patrol

Southern Sudan, where the horrific has twisted itself into the everyday